1 Craftsmanship
The dream of flying is almost certainly as old as humanity. The ancient Greek myth describing the flight of Daedalus and Icarus dates from around 1550 BCE. In the millennia that followed, a number of brave, if foolish, souls have strapped ungainly contraptions to their bodies and leapt off cliffs and towers to their doom in pursuit of that dream.
Things began to change about five hundred years ago when Leonardo DaVinci drew sketches of machines that, though not truly capable of flight, showed some reasoned thought. It was DaVinci who realized that flight could be possible because air resistance works in both directions. The ...
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